CENTRAL AFRICA: Being Stupid

Over village after village in
Nyasaland last week, planes of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force dropped
leaflets with a special message for the women "What will happen," they
asked, "when your husband is in prison? Where will you get your cloth
when all the money is used to pay fines? Tell your men to stop being
stupid." By "being stupid" the government meant joining the nationalist
agitation for Nyasaland to secede from the British-inspired Central
African Federation.

The week before, the government had arrested and exiled Dr. Hastings
Banda, the Pied Piper...